Savas Beatie and the Siege of Petersburg

I was recently emailing back and forth with John Horn, author of several Civil War books on the Siege of Petersburg, and he let me know that he is working with Savas Beatie to produce an updated version of his look at the Siege of Petersburg’s Fourth Offensive in 1864. The original, The Petersburg Campaign: The Destruction of The Weldon Railroad: Deep Bottom, Globe Tavern, and Reams Station: August 14-25, 1864, was published by H. E. Howard. John has been working for 25 years collecting more information on the battle, and he plans a major revision of the book combined with Savas Beatie’s typically excellent battle maps. I’m looking forward to this one.

After emailing Ted Savas to get his take, Ted revealed that Savas Beatie has major, major plans for the Siege of Petersburg in 2014, the 150th anniversary of the siege. Other books Savas Beatie hopes to publish or republish on the Siege in 2014 include (please remember none of this is set in stone, so don’t blame me or the publisher if any of these fail to make it):